The Kindred Talks: What Precedes War, and What Follows In Its Path?

We have some understanding of wartime at its peaks: the blasted earth and senseless deaths, the casual barbarity and mass graves. But what happens at the outer edges of battle? Artists have long examined life before and after war, from Homer’s The Iliad and Shakespeare’s Henry V to Katori Hall’s Our Lady of Kibeho and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.